Places scmik Wants to Go

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.